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Elizabethn
Van Valkenburgh Lynott Bloodgood
Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh was born in 1745.She was the daughter of Albany carpenter Jacobus and Margarita Radcliff Van Valkenburgh.
She
married newcomer Thomas Lynott about 1765. The couple
had two daughters before his death in 1770. She was
among the beneficiaries of his estate. She then married
newcomer skipper Abraham Bloodgood in 1773. Over
the next two decades, seven of their children were
baptized in the Albany Dutch church.
The
Bloodgoods lived on the Albany waterfront where Abraham
was among the most prominent mariners and also an
innkeeper.
Elizabeth
was a slaveholder in her own right. In 1801, she
freed Diana, who was born a year earlier to her slave,
Rose.
Abraham
Bloodgood died in 1807. His will gave her control
of his estate during her widowhood. After Bloodgood's
passing, she moved in with her children as her name
did not appear on subsequent lists of Albany householders.
Elizabeth
filed a will in 1822. It left her household items
to her daughter Rachel. Widow Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh
Lynott Bloodgood died on July 21, 1823. She had lived
almost seventy-eight years.
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Sources: The life of Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh Lynott Bloodgood
is CAP biography number 1227. This profile is derived
chiefly from family and community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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